Understanding architecture : an introduction to architecture and architectural history

Title: Understanding architecture : an introduction to architecture and architectural history /
Main Author: Conway, Hazel.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2005, c2005.

Other Author(s): Roenisch, Rowan.
ISBN/ISSN: 0415320585 (hard cover : alk. paper)
0415320593 (soft cover : alk. paper)
0203238230 (e-book)
0415320593 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415320585 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Description: 2nd ed.
xii, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Understanding Architecture is a comprehensive introduction to architecture an architectural history and exceptional in its holistic approach. It explores the current practice of architecture in relation to its history and in relation to the issues that are significant today. This new edition looks at the implications of sustainability, at conservation, landscape, and urban regeneration. Its extended coverage includes China, the Middle East, India, Africa and other parts of the world." "Its aim is to help people make sense of the experience of architecture and the built environment by introducing some of the complexities of the subject."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of contents: 1. Introduction
2. Architecture and building
3. Architectural history
4. Space and function
5. Drawings and models
6. Materials and construction
7. The exterior
8. Styles and periods
9. Site and place
10. Sources.
Subject(s): Architecture.
Architecture and society.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 720 C769